Game apparatus.



D. A. JACKSON.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24. 1908.

934,179, A Patented Sept.14,1909.

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- strength device carried on the end of OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

'UNTTED DANIEL A. JACKSON,

GAME APPARATUS.

Patented Sept. 1 1, 1999.

Serial No. 445,132.

934,179. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 24, 1908.

that the objects the water or rest upon tank as desired. is in the form of a fish, and each be hollow by forming two opposed sides 11 and 12 and joining them together in the usual manner so as to more nearly conform to the shape of the object which is represented. The simulated fish 10 has its fins 13 and tail 1&-

usual well as the gill fins 15, and formed as a part thereof or attached thereto are the elements 16 which may be surface of T 0 all whom it may concern:

f the Be it known that I, DANIEL A. J AOKSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough 0 Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, l exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to a game apparatus in which simulated fish form a part thereof.

The primary object of the invention is to )rovide an interesting game in which simupieces of steel, or magnets suitably held bep lated fish or like Ob16CtS may be arranger in tween the two parts or the body portion so a tank or otherwise, and which have a p uto proyect beyond the outer edge thereof.

A steel mouthpiece 17 or other device is arranged in the mouth of the object, and this device 17 when a magnet is much stronger than either of the magnets 16 arranged on the other parts of the body of the object, and each magnet or deviceis adapted to be attracted by a magnet- 18 arranged on the rality of magnets of different attractive carried thereby which are adapteo to be engaged or attracted by a magnet or a line in such a line will be perway that the magnet on the the objects by mitted to engage and attract any one of the magnets carried thereby, but is required to engage a particular one before end of a line 19, and this line may be carthe ob ect can be raised out of the water, or ried or held to a pole 20. The magnet 18 may of any other suitable form to make it more or less difiicult to engage the magnets of the object for its removal from a tank or to be otherwise removed. It will be seen that when the magnet 18 is made to move adjacent to the simulated fish it is as likely to come in contact with any one of the magnets 16 as with the magne T. The ma nets 16 are of such 13 strength that they will permit the object, if a fish,

wherever placed, thus materially increasing the diiiiculty of removing tie object and e fecting the result sought to be accomplished by the game.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple game apparatus in which hollow simulated fish may be placed in a tank and adapted to float therein, or be made so as to readily rise to the surface of the water, but which requires an obiect b0 engage the fish at a certain place before the simulated fish can be removed from the water.

\Vith these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and will then e pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In of one form of vention. Fig. of the objects. tion taken on and Fig. 4: is a device by which ma be engaged.

A number of simulated fish 10 or other objects may be employed in carrying on my invention, and when the objects are made to represent fish, 1 may place a number of the same within a tank containing water so to be raised to the sur ace of the water, or to be moved somewhat if not located in a tank, but the attraction is not sufficiently strong between the device 18 and said magnets or devices 1 raise the object or permit the simulated fish to be caught. This can only be done through the mouthpiece or magne 17 which is stronger than the magnet 16, and of such a nature that the attraction between the said device 16 and the magnet or device 18 will cause the object to be entirely removed from the tank. Unless the device 8 engages the device 17 the object will remain in he water or fall to the bottom again after being once raised making it more difficult to properly catch the simulated fish.

Instead of having each simulated fish or other object provided with a device 17, only one or a plurality of the samemay be provided with such a device thereby requiring not only the particular object to be caught,

the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation apparatus embodying my in- 2 is a detail elevation of one Fig. 3 is a transverse secthe line TIT T11 of Fig. 2; detail view of a magnet or the object to be removed as to entirely i O. game.

- fish provided With a plurality of magnets of provided but also to be caught in a particular Way, 6. In a game apparatus, an object havin the other magnets or devices serving to kee a plni ality of magnets one of W ich is lo 1e ma net 18 on the line from en aging the cated in its mouth and the others of differproper magnet of the object. ent strength therefrom located at different From the f parts of the body of saidobject, and a device slmple and adapted to be attracted by said magnets.

f may rality of simulated fish each having arplu- )e arrangec in a tank or otherWise,and iality of magnets of different strengthslo which are adapted to be removed by means cated on different parts of the body thereof 0 an inc ependent ma net or device that a device adapted to be attracted by the magnets of the object, an

supporting means for e. evice. V rality of objects each of said objects having a plurality of adapted to be the objects, and supporting device. r

9. A game apparatus, comprising a rality of simulated fish each'having a rality of magnets of different strengths lo- Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentz- 1'. A game apparatus having means for the simulated P uvarying strength, and net adapted to engage by the simulated fish.

1 game apparatus having an object with a plurality of magnets of dif-' ferent strengths, and an independent magnet adapted to engage the magnets carried by the object.

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an independentmagthe magnets carried game apparatus,comprising a plurality of simulated fish each having a rality of magnets of different strengths located in the mouth, tail a' d fin portions of the body, and a magnet adapted to engage the magnets of the objects for the purpose set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this twenty-third day of July A. D. 1908.

DANIEL A. JACKSON.

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n a game apparatus, asimulated fish having a plurality of magnets of different Witnesses: strengths forming a part thereof, and a de- M. TURNER, vice adapted to be attracted by said magnets. Bnolca z.

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